Summary
Strategically marketing alternative tourism destinations in small island nations have their own unique challenges. While initiatives such as village-based tourism can bring economic benefits and employment to rural indigenous communities in developing countries, they can also create social tension among the local community and have negative impacts on the natural environment. This case study explores the marketing strategies used in a village-based tourism venture, Olivia's Homestay, in a remote coastal village in Fiji and presents the real-life challenges faced by Olivia and the indigenous Fijian community in marketing this destination to international tourists, while also sustaining the traditional Fijian lifestyle. Any strategic destination marketing campaign aimed at developing homestay accommodation in indigenous Fijian villages such as Nagigi needs to take this balance into consideration and to include a demarketing plan that could be used if the negative impacts outweigh the positive.